The Susquehanna River Valley, shrouded in fog, from the Hartwick College campus. I've made a lot of changes in the last two years.

I've moved back to the United States, and am now living in the beautiful foothills of the Catskill mountains of New York.

I've shifted out of a purely academic professional track, and into a Museum job that combines material culture work, public engagement and outreach, and teaching.

I've worked on decluttering my social media input.

I've started writing fiction again (more on that in the future, hopefully).

So, it seemed appropriate to re-start this blog, which, though it began as a personal writing exercise, had morphed into a largely professional and archaeology-focused outlet. I want to re-capture some of the personality, sponteneity, and diversity of interests that I had when I started.

Dr. Nnedi Okorafor's World Fantasy Award, and the book for which she won it. Lovecraft's likeness was removed from the award in 2015 after a public campaign by writers of color and allies. I also used to do a podcast, which focused on H.P. Lovecraft's New England stories. It's also still available, though, for a variety of reasons, that project feels somewhat completed now. For one thing, I have completed readings of all of the major stories set in Massachusetts. For another, I remain ambivalent about championing Lovecraft, particularly in light of his vicious racism (and the tantrums that his current defenders use to defend him up in spite of it). Finally, part of my inspiration was that I was living in the landscape that Lovecraft so expertly depicted and remixed in his fiction, but I haven't had a permanent or even temporary home in Western Massachusetts for almost a decade now.

I am going to try, in the spirit of weeknotes, to use this blog as a place to curate and report on things that I'm reading, working on, and inspired by. I'll also occasionally post a few longer things, when the mood strikes. My hope is that this will help me move off of the hopelessly corrupted and toxic worlds of facebook and twitter, and into something more open, healthy, and productive.